Rekers Paid $87,000 by Florida Taxpayers to Fight Gay Adoption

Did you wonder how Reverend Dr. George Rekers got the dough to finance a 10-day trip to Europe with a rent boy?  It may be the $87,000 tax dollars he and an associate were paid by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum to testify in a recent court challenge to the state's ban on gay adoption.  According to Equality Florida:

"McCollum paid Rekers and a colleague t$87,000 for testimony that called gay people mentally unstable and advised that the ban should be expanded to include Native Americans because, Rekers claimed, they are also at much higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse.
“They would tend to hang around each other,” Rekers testified. “So the children would be around a lot of other Native Americans who are … doing the same sorts of things.”

Nadine Smith, Equality Florida's Executive Director, said:

"It is disgraceful that the attorney general used taxpayer dollars to compensate this discredited bigot-for-hire," said Smith. "It shows just how low they have to scrape to find anyone even willing to defend this awful ban that denies children permanent loving homes."

Read more here and here. 

The picture at top is from the Miami New Times, which broke this story.  It's of Rekers and his rent boy at Miami International Airport, returning from the jaunt to Europe.  Keep in mind that Rekers said he hired the rent boy to carry his luggage because he couldn't do any heavy lifting. 

Outrageous.